Quotes About Realization

Realization, in its fullest meaning, is not merely knowing something, but making it real in oneself. We come to this essential Self through a process of deconditioning, reconditioning, and unconditioning. This can also be described as minimizing what is negative, increasing what is positive, and, ultimately, opening to Spirit.

A drop that knows itself, knows the Ocean. (p. 80)

To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.

True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.

True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.

Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.

But just then Aneeka shrugged in response and he experienced one of those terrifying moments in which a person you thought you knew reveals a new aspect of their character that has taken hold while you weren't looking.

I was the girl who could be anything-that's what my teachers used to say, and I believed them. I just never realised that 'anything'could include this.

Reality depends upon your mind alone.[34]

Remembering the story made me smile, and it was only when I smiled that I realized I had been crying.

Only around 1983 did I begin to realize that not he but rather Kim Il-sung and his regime were the real causes of my suffering. They were the ones responsible for the camp and for filling it with innocent people. All during my childhood, Kim Il-sung had been like a god to me. A few years in the camp cured me of my faith.

The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.

When Arjen Robben introduced himself to me, I just couldn't believe it. I mean, I didn't think it was the real guy.

One of the first people that believed in me, the first person to invest in my talent, me and this guy used to argue all the time in the studio, but at the end of the day, we both realized that we were after the same goal, and that was to make great music. And I'm talking about Eazy-E.

As you get older, you realize happiness involves a lot of problems.

The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.

When a person gets to the age of 35 and you go to jail, it either makes you or breaks you. It made me identify what I wanted.

There comes a time in every man's life when he realises he will never be James Bond.

I got to travel to Japan. I never in my life thought I would go to Japan.

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'

You could not imitate Fellini. His beauty was above anything else, but that intelligence was typically Italian. This helped me to realise that I had to create something that was distinctively Japanese.

Jason Statham is funny, I never knew that.

High school for me was not all that fun. I think it's a lot more fun after when you realize that high school ends, and everything that's important at that time is sort of not important if people don't like your jeans or whatever. It doesn't matter.

Jerry didn't know he wanted to get married until he was married.